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...government officials, rebel leaders and politicians must work to rebuild a devastated country. Now that we have faced the tsunami together, we must understand the agony of displaced and bereaved people and of those who have lost everything but their lives. Prasanna Aryaprema Panadura, Sri Lanka Torture and Terrorists In his column "where's the outrage?," about the Senate confirmation hearings on Attorney General-designate Alberto Gonzales [Jan. 17], Joe Klein wondered why there was no outrage over the abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo and elsewhere or over Gonzales' complicity in the Bush Administration decision...
...part of the Iraqi government and the United States armed forces. It is not yet known with any certainty exactly why Sunni turnout was so low; while many voters might have stayed away in protest, it seems likely that were kept away because of poll closings, inadequate ballots and terrorist threats. According to one account cited in Reuters, “many Iraqis arrived late to find ballot sheets had run out, possibly skewing results for the already disgruntled minority.” Thus, any hasty inferences to the main cause of low Sunni turnout seem unwise...
...December 16, 2004, the House of Lords, Britain’s highest court, ruled that the British government’s indefinite detention of terrorist suspects under its Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act is unlawful, effectively putting the kybosh on a significant part of what was the U.K. government’s strategy for dealing with any foreigner who poses, in the words of the legislation, “a risk to national security, and has links with an international terrorist group...
...which will require sensitive information to be aired in open court—or release them. The importance of the ruling, however, goes well beyond the fates of these 11 suspects: It constitutes a substantial piece of international legal precedent on the question of indefinite detainment for suspected terrorist links, one that ought to have extraordinary consequences for the way all countries involved in the “war on terror” deal with detainees...
...COMMUTED. The death sentence of TENZIN DELEK RINPOCHE, 54, prominent Tibetan monk jailed by Chinese authorities; to life in prison, by the Higher People's Court of Sichuan province; in Chengdu, China. In 2002, Delek was convicted of participating in terrorist bombings and secessionist activities in a closed-door trial widely criticized by international human-rights groups, who made numerous appeals on his behalf...